Improve the autonomy of your laptop in linux with tlp

One of the drawbacks of using Linux on laptops is that the power consumption is not as optimized as it should be, so the battery life is significantly less than that obtained with the use of Windows in its different versions. Fortunately, there is an advanced power management tool for Linux called TLP that will improve battery life on our Linux.

What is TLP for Linux?

The way in which the operating system manages energy is a very important factor for the autonomy of the battery of our portable equipment. The different hardware components of our equipment have considerable energy consumption, so it is very important to optimize their use to the maximum and turn them off when not in use. TLP is a tool for GNU / Linux distributions that automatically optimizes energy management in the different distributions of the Pinguino operating system. TLP comes preconfigured to get all the possible performance from the battery and the user only has to run it the first time, after that the tool will be activated every time you start your computer and will do all the work for you.

Installation of TLP in Ubuntu and its derivatives

In this guide we will focus on the installation and use of TLP in Ubuntu and its derivatives as they are the most used GNU / Linux distributions. Its installation is very simple, we just need to install the developer's repository and install the tool, for this we write the following commands in the terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa: linrunner / tlp sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install tlp tlp-rdw

In case of being a Lenovo ThinkPad user you also need to install the following package:

sudo apt-get install tp-smapi-dkms acpi-call-tools

Once you have installed TLP you only have to run it manually the first time, to run TLP the first time you just have to use the following command in the terminal:

sudo tlp start

With all this you already have TLP installed on your Ubuntu and from now on it will take care of doing all the work for you and optimize the battery life of your laptop to the maximum.